design-thinking
Direction and intent for frontend design. Use with design when defining purpose, tone, domain, color world, and review bar; includes cross-domain lens from cinema, architecture, marketing, UX, automotive, industrial design.
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill design-thinking --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Design thinking ## When to Use Use this skill when you need direction and intent for frontend design. Use with design when defining purpose, tone, domain, color world, and review bar; includes cross-domain lens from cinema, architecture, marketing, UX, automotive, industrial design. Apply with the **design** skill on every design task. Do this before coding. ## Design thinking (before coding) - **Purpose**: What problem does this interface solve? Who uses it? - **Tone**: Pick an extreme and execute with intention — e.g. brutally minimal, maximalist, retro-futuristic, organic/natural, luxury/refined, playful/toy-like, editorial/magazine, brutalist/raw, art deco/geometric, soft/pastel, industrial/utilitarian. - **Constraints**: Framework, performance, accessibility. - **Differentiation**: One thing that makes it unforgettable. Commit to one bold direction. Intentionality over intensity. ## Reserve impact for punctuation (use sparingly for effect) High-impact devices — full-bleed media, dramatic motion, oversized type, a saturated accent, parallax — lose their force the moment they become the default. If every section is a full-screen video, none of them land. Choose 1–2 moments to
- When to Use
- Design thinking (before coding)
- Reserve impact for punctuation (use sparingly for effect)
- Domain and color
- Review bar
- Cross-domain lens
- Cinema
- Architecture
- Marketing
- UX
- Automotive (exterior / interior)
- Industrial design
- Limitations
What does the design-thinking skill do?
Direction and intent for frontend design. Use with design when defining purpose, tone, domain, color world, and review bar; includes cross-domain lens from cinema, architecture, marketing, UX, automotive, industrial design.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill design-thinking --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, a repository with 44,414 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.